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“Showbiz, there’s deals to make/So let’s get busy and dig in the crates” – Showbiz & AG, Diggin’ in the Crates...During one of my several aborted attempts to learn how to play punk, I read that all beginners need are E or D-major barre chords. Six of those, and you’re on your way to a song.

THE ART OF NOISE Static and squeaks, things usually avoided in music, are written into the musical score by sound installation artist and composer Daniel Steffey. The Nov. 11 grand opening of 5th Wall Gallery, in Emergency Arts, featured a live performance by Steffey and Bay Area violinist Christina Stanley for the sound installation Sonic Trichromacy.

Artist: Art of Noise Album: Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise? Deluxe CD + DVD Edition Release Date: September 5 Label: ZTT

Mad Monkey - The legendary twang guitarist's first album in 24 years mercifully contains none of the gimmicks used by his 1980s collaborators Art of Noise, just a timeless surf sound from producer, co-writer and obvious fan Richard Hawley.

"They're calling us 'avant garde'," chuckles Duane Eddy , "which is kind of true, because we avant garde a clue what we're doing!" Let it not be said that rock'n'roll is without humour and Duane Eddy, one of the most instantly recognisable and important guitarists of his and any generation, is chuckling at his recollection of re-working 'Peter Gunn' with the Art of Noise back in 1986. Of course ...

Eric Singer's latest solo exhibit "Living in the Future" is on display at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's SPACE gallery, Downtown.

Whether by design or accident this latest “double” in the Royal Opera’s Operashots project hit us with the most compelling of juxtapositions. Both composers – Stewart Copeland and Oscar winner Anne Dudley – hailed latterly from the movies but by no means exclusively so: she was a founder member of Art of Noise, he was the drummer of The Police. But both of them took to the stage with an innate ...

Birthdays: Fred Parris ( Five Satins ) (75) Diana Ross (67) Steven Tyler ( Aerosmith ) (63) Richard Tandy ( Electric Light Orchestra ) (63) Fran Sheehan ( Boston ) (62) Ronnie McDowell (61) Dean Dillon (56) Charly McClain (55) Paul Morley ( Art of Noise ) (54) Deaths: 1976 - Duster Bennett - Car Accident (29) 1980 - John Poulos ( Buckinghams ) - Drug related heart failure (32) 2002 - Randy ...

BRENTWOOD, UNITED KINGDOM – February 14, 2011: The 1.6-litre EcoBoost petrol engine in new Ford Focus has been acoustically tuned to produce an impressively sporty growl under hard acceleration.

As much an art project as a successful pop label, the 80s/90s-vintage British imprint ZTT -- co-founded in part by supremely slick producer Trevor Horn and futurist pop critic Paul Morley-- released conceptual all-surface hits from groups like the Art of Noise and Grace Jones, as well as releases by artists as diverse as 808 State, the Frames, and Seal. And in a new reissue series, the label is ...